Word: california
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...addition, the committee recently came close to offering the chair to Saul Friedlander, a Holocaust scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), with the expectation that he would serve in an interim capacity, the history professor, who asked not to be named, said...
...history professor and the Faculty member said the offer was not extended to Friedlander because he was too old and because he currently divides his time between California and Israel, where he teaches half the year at the University of Tel Aviv. Friedlander...
...party coffers, which are subject to far less public scrutiny than federal-election accounts. On April 12, 1996, the day after Kantor asked the WTO to examine Chiquita's grievance, Lindner and his top executives began funneling more than $500,000 to about two dozen states from Florida to California, campaign officials told TIME. The only record of the contributions is in often remote state capitals, like Cheyenne, Wyoming, where contributors are not even required to list their employers. A Democratic official said the state-party route was reserved for "hot potatoes"--donors who wanted some anonymity...
RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Seeking to unravel the events leading to the group suicide and to understand the reasons that the members of Heaven's Gate came together, attention has turned to the cult's leader, Marshall Herff Applewhite. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Applewhite was leading an apparently unremarkable life as a highly talented baritone, a husband, father of two, and a professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. In the early 1970's, Applewhite was granted a leave of absence from the university to deal with emotional problems. According to The Washington Post...
SANTA MONICA, California: His sports career finished, his professional reputation ruined, O.J. Simpson could always seek moral support from the 1968 Heisman Trophy he won as college football's best player. Not anymore. Under a court order signed by Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, sheriff's deputies and a huge moving van arrived at Simpson's estate to confiscate property for payment of $33.5 million in damages for the death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The $5,100 Heisman was one of the first items to go. The $500,000 inventory list submitted to Fujisaki by the Goldman family lawyers...